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Deployment is the process or collection activities that make a system available for use.

Deployment is the process or collection activities that make a system available for use.

It can refer to hardware, software, or both and has varying levels of automation, from the completely automated "no-touch" deployments to completely manual ones. Wikipedia has a page dedicated to software deployments here.

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Am I misunderstanding the purpose of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and WDS?

I am not sure if I am confused as to the purpose of MDT. We need to deploy a standard Windows 7 build to about 100 new computers, and more as time goes on. Having followed a whole bunch of documentation, tutorials and white-papers etc, it seems that…
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Where to find python fabric setup examples?

I want to know what is your experience with fabric scripts? Do think it is useful? is there sample scripts for this? copying, setup service etc I know there is puppet and chef but i am looking for something that does not use a client/server setup to…
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Command Line Tool for multiple monitors

I'm looking for a command line tool for setting up multiple monitors. I'm deploying a Windows Vista image to numerous machines using WDS. When syspreped the dual monitor setup are stripped from the image. I've compensatetd for this in the past…
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What issues do you need to check for deploying a java application on linux?

What issues should be specifically checked for when deploying a server application written in Java (without any specific platform dependencies) that was written and tested on Windows. Two that I know of: Case sensitive file names Available fonts
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How would you remotely install software on multiple Windows XP machines?

I need to install the standalone google talk client for Windows XP. I have the googletalk-setup.exe. How would you go about installing this on 100+ Windows XP systems? Is there an automated way you would do it? I found this info that mentions…
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Config deployment on multiple servers

I have multiple servers in WEB cluster (identical configuration for all of them, despite the IP) How do you deploy changes in configs on multile servers? I make the new config, then create config per every server (placing correct IP), and…
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Are there complete System Center Configuration Manager alternatives?

I have been researching System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 SP2 and struggling to swallow the SCCM pill. The tool seems outdated and not well equipped for managing an environment with the latest versions of Server 2008 R2, SQL 2008 R2,…
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Is Ubuntu a viable replacement of Windows XP for small enterprise environments?

I'm a newbie systems administrator, so any advice would be great. I would like to setup ubuntu 8.04 LTS in a small office of consulting in management (around 50 workstations) instead of Windows XP. I would install MS Office 2007 via WINE (*). It…
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Deploying workstations - best practices?

I've been researching on the subject of workstation deployment for a while, and found a ton of info and dozens different methods and tools, but no "best practice" method that doesn't lack at least one feature that i consider required for the…
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Ubuntu server deployment

What's the best way to automate Ubuntu Server deployments? I saw that someone is porting Kickstart to Ubuntu, but it didn't look very complete.
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What do you have on your PXE server?

Basically, what cool utilities does everyone have loaded up on a PXE server ready to use on any computer you netboot from? I've just set one up at home with the following: Clonezilla Memtest86 Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Netbook remix…
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Bulk install new certificates on multiple Windows Server 2016+ endpoints

I have begrudgingly been updating our purchased wildcard certs manually for years and I've had enough now that I've got over 100 web and client servers. The servers are mostly independent and spread across a few different domains, but there are a…
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What Are the Hardware Requirements of Kubernetes Master Node

We are trying to setup one cluster with 25 worker nodes and 1 master node. Before doing that, we need to choose the hardware, especially for the master node. How to estimate the hardware resources we need? Do hardware requirements of the master node…
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Trying to deploy Symfony on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - setfacl not working?

Disclaimer: I already asked this on StackOverflow but it's kind of urgent and I'm getting no responses and I figure ServerFault might be the better place to post this anyways. If I get an answer on here I'll delete the other one. I'm following the…
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Imaging mac fully remote keyboard free?

How can I image a mac remotely over the network with no access to the machine (no keyboard)? UPDATE: We may be having issues with the reboot process after selecting a network boot disk, see edit below. We're learning about mac imaging to manage a…
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